Improved trunk



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

ELIAS B. QUIOK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE T. PALMER, OF SAME PLACE. A

IMPROVED TRUNK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent NO. 59,136, (lated October 23, 1866;

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS B. QUICK, of Brooklyn, in the county'of Kings'and State of New York, have invented an Improved Mode of Making Clothes-Trunks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and the letters of reference marked thereon, and which form a part of this specification.

Letter A represents a clothestrunk, made in the usual manner, with ventilators Vplaced in its sides, and marked a a a. The ventilators are made with movable registers, gates, or slides, so that they may be opened and closed at pleasure. rIhe movable gates are'shown at b, where a knob protrudes through a slot in the outside plate, by means of which the gate on the inside is moved. The apertures in the sides of the trunk where the ventilators are placed are covered on the opposite side with perforated sheet metal, which makes it iiush and smooth, thereby obviating all disfignre- `ments, as shown at c. The two plates forming the register are fastened by the rivets d d d d, which pass through them and the material forming the sides of the trunk.

One, two, or more ventilators may be placed in a trunk, and at different elevations, or on different parts of the trunk. The perforated plate,may be changed from what is shown on the drawing' and placed on the outside of the trunk, and the gate placed on the inside; also, the form of the ventilator may be changed to suit the taste orto adapt it to the part of the trunk where it is used.

The advantages of a ventilated trunk over an unventilated one are obvious. Persons traveling sometimes have to pack their trunks with articles of clothing not thoroughly aired and dried. At other times they get their clothing damp or wet, and frequently have no other place other than their trunks for their changed damp or wet clothing; also, persons in boarding-houses have no other place of equal safety for their changed linen until wash-day comes, or for changed outer garments, but their trunks. The ventilators m ust necessarily assist in dispelling dampness and unpleasant odor, and will be found of advantage at all times to be enabled to ventilate the contents and interior of a trunk without being necessitated to leave it unlocked.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A trunk with a ventilator or ventilators attached, substantially as shown and set forth.

ELIAS B. QUICK.

Witnesses CEAS. E. FROST, GEORGE PALMER. 

